So you haven't seen Chandrakanta, right? Because if you had, you'd know what aiyaary means. That's how I know.

Aiyaary is a term very frequently used in the magic related Hindi novels of the late 19th and early 20th century. It's a word which loosely means 'wizardry' or 'magic', though if you want to be more specific, it had often to do with changing one's appearance with the help of magic.

The word has a negative connotation, and aiyaari is often connected with deception and villainy. Aiyaary is the title of a film directed by 'A Wednesday' director Neeraj Pandey, starring Siddharth Malhotra, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah.

Ghoomar (Devanagari: घूमर) is a traditional Rajasthani dance form, in which women twirl round and round in circles as they dance.

The word 'ghoomar' literally means to twirl in circles, and that gives the name to the dance.

Ghoomar is mostly performed by women for the entertainment of elder women of the family and is mostly the audiences are women only. The dance is part of many rituals and festivities in the families where it takes place.

One of those simple, personal songs by Badshah that seem to come straight out of the heart. In this one Badshah talks about his success, some of his own flaws, about how it's lonely at the top and how he misses a friend of earlier days, who is probably none other than Yo Yo Honey Singh.

[User discretion may be required, as there are a couple of swear words in the lyrics.]

As Star India re-launches its Life OK (earlier Star One) as Star Bharat, they have come up with a nice campaign that shows how we are suggested not to try new things, which instils fear in long term too. Here are the lyrics of the catchy song. The song can be heard at Hotstar.

phurr or phurrr is nothing but a famous onomatopoeia for the sound of a bird's wings when flying. So phurrr here signifies flying like a bird.

Phurrr is the title of a song from Shahrukh Khan starrer Jab Harry Met Sejal, featuring American singer-songwriter Diplo, collaborating with Pritam and Irshad Kamil. The song is sung by Mohit Chauhan and Tushar Joshi.

Mere Rashq-e-Qamar was a Qawwali sung by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The ghazal was written by Fana Bulandshehri. Fana's name is mentioned as a takhallus in the original ghazal/qawwali, and even Manoj Muntashir, who has written entirely new lyrics except the ghazal's matla (the first sher) and converted the ghazal into a song, has written a line 'hum fanaa ho gaye' in this version, giving a tribute to the original writer. Also, some good work by Tanishk Bagchi here, who maintains the flavor of the original qawwali.

This mixtape brings together the very popular 'Gazab ka hai din' from Qayamat se Qayamat tak, and 'Bawara Mann' from Jolly LLB 2. The lyrics and Translations of the original songs can be found at the following links.

Paas Aao was a popular theme song of Close-up, composed by Ram Sampath and sung by Sona Mahapatra, which is now recreated for T-Series by Amaal Malik, with Armaan Malik and Prakriti Kakkar singing the new lyrics written by Kumaar. The song video directed by Ahmed Khan shows the location as Close-up First Move Party.

This mixtape brings the beautiful 'Jo bheji thi dua' sung by Nandini Srikar and Arijit Singh in Shanghai, and Saanware, sung by Arijit for Phantom. The lyrics and translations for the original songs can be found at the following links.

So here comes what is probably the best song of Tubelight. Kuch Nahi seems to begin where Bajrangi's Tu Jo Mila ended, and similar to that, has three versions sung by Javed Ali, Papon, and Shafqat (Tu Jo Mila had KK, he sings a version of 'Main Agar' here). Do listen to this one. Or three. :)

So after Vidya Vox makes a mashup of Kabira with the Chainsmokers' Closer, there is T-Series creating a mixtape of Kabira with another of their beautiful songs, Naina from Khoobsurat. So here is one you'd like to listen to.

Btw, if you are looking for the original songs from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Khoobsurat, here are the links.

Hawa Hawa was a very popular song of Hassan Jahangir from 1989, which was released in India as well. Here are the lyrics of the song along with translation, and a pic of the 1989 T-Series cassette cover as well.

There has been a lot of talk about the theme song that runs in the background in the movie Baahubali 2 — The Conclusion, whenever there is an action scene of Amarendra (and in some cases, Mahendra) Baahubali. So here are the lyrics of the two lines (which are probably the same in both Hindi and Telugu versions, I have seen them both) and their meaning.

(hai) aisa, rudra sa,
hai sarvatra samudra sa.

The meaning is that, he is such, like rudra (Rudra is the Rigvedic God of Hunt and Storm, also considered as Shiva in many places, but nonetheless considered fierce), he is there everywhere, like the sea.

The initial 'hai' may or may not be there, as it's not too clear by the rendition, but then it really does not change anything in the meaning, so you can hum it the way you have been. Yep, you are not alone. Everyone comes out of the cinema hall humming this one. :)

Oh, and if anyone from Team Baahubali is reading this script, please, please release the background score of the film. It's beautiful.

Now that's a complex one. So let's begin with what Tashreef is, and then we can move on to what it's not. Tashreef is an Urdu word with an Arabic origin, meaning honor. It shares the same root as shareef (gentlemanly, honorable), and sharaafat (nobility).

Now let's talk about what it's not. Somehow, the word is often considered as 'butt'. This probably came out of a bad reverse engineering on the phrase 'tashreef rakhna' which means to sit down, and which someone decided meant putting one's butt down, rather than place one's honor/honorable self. Here it's not clear at all how this supposed meaning became famous. Guess it's much like how all the butt jokes get their fame.

So while lag gayi tashreef could be understood as someone's honor being gone, if we try and insist on the real meaning of the word tashreef, it probably has come from the non-meaning of the word, as there is a phrase called g***D lagna where g***d literally means a** or butt, and the meaning of the phrase is to be in trouble. So effectively, lag gayi tashreef is supposed to mean 'to be in trouble'.

For Meri Pyaari Bindu, Sachin-Jigar compose a track that essentially is a tribute to R.D.Burman (and Shammi Kappor), as the song seems to take the listener very close to the aaja-a-aa-aaja part of the Teesri Manzil song, and yet avoiding a remake of it, keeping it a fresh composition. Lovely to listen to.

This is one of the most popular Punjabi pop songs by Sukhbir which is recreated for the film Hindi Medium starring Irrfan and Saba Qamar. The song now also features a rap by Ikka. The music is produced by Abhijit Vaghani.

Murshid is a commonly used Urdu word of Arabic root, and one that is often heard in Bollywood songs as well. Murshid could mean a teacher, spiritual leader, or a religious leader, someone who is expected to show you the right path in life, a guide in that way.

Murshida is nothing but the same word, used for a woman instead of a man.

The song murshida from the film Begum Jaan also uses the word dosta as well, which is nothing but a female 'dost' — friend in Urdu and Persian.

In Baahubali - The Conclusion's poster and trailer, you can see #WKKB written there. While in the posters it's written in the corner, in the trailer it finds almost the centre with the release date close to the end of trailer.

WKKB is nothing but the biggest question: Why did Katappa kill Baahubali? So they are promoting 'Baahubali - The Conclusion' or 'Baahubali 2' (the number 2 is in the background of the name everywhere as 'Why Katappa Killed Bahubali' or WKKB. For the ease of Twitter and Facebook hash-tagging of course, it becomes #WKKB.

Since we are here to discuss the meaning, first let's clear the meaning.

Bareilly is the name of a town in Western Uttar Pradesh, of course spelled so by the British (kids always start with spelling it Bareli or something like that and teachers get to show off their intelligence on this name). Barfi, as you probably know by now, is an Indian sweet, traditionally white (barf=ice/snow, hence the name), but now found in all colors.

So the name simply means that-white-sweet of Bareilly.

For a diversion from the meaning though, as far as I have known Bareilly, it's been more famous for laddoos, especially those from Kipps, from earlier times. Not sure if the shop is still as good. I'd hope it is. But then when it comes to the movie's name, maybe they named it so for the alliteration one gets in Bareilly ki Barfi.

In Hindi poetry and songs, bhanwara is often used as a symbol of a male lover, and sometimes an unfaithful one at that. The reason probably has to do with the fact that a bumblebee goes to the flower for its honey, but then goes away.

In Hindi songs we often hear the phrase 'do jahaan', which literally translates to 'two worlds'. This is something of a religious concept from the point of view where one thinks that there is a world other than this world too, where we live after death. So the 'two worlds' are nothing but one world that we live in, and another world that is expected after we are no more in this world.

Mostly the phrase 'do jahaan' is used to signify eternity, in which one includes time after one's death as well.

The words 'tamma tamma loge' don't mean anything. As such 'loge' in Hindi might be translated as 'you will take', or 'will you take', but then tamma is not a word in Hindi or any other Indian/related language, and the entire phrase here has no meaning either.

Arrah (also spelled as Ara, though not much as aarah or araah) is a town in the Bhojpur district in Bihar, almost 50 km from Patna. Anarkali is a character famous from the Hindi film Mughal-e-Azam who was ordered to be buried alive by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, but the authenticity of the story, which is found in texts from the time of Jehangir himself, cannot be proved.

Nonetheless, Anarkali has become popular as a beautiful dancer, and to an extent as a brave/fearless person too, and that seems to be the inference that is used here in the name of the film Anarkali of Aarah. That is, the movie is about a girl who is a beautiful dancer from the town of Arrah.

Phillaur is a town in the Jalandhar district in Punjab, India, and the residents of the town of Phillaur are called Phillauris. [Just the way residents of Amritsar are called Amritsari (aur ambarsariya sometimes) and residents of Ludhiana, Ludhianvi.]

In the Anushka Sharma starrer film Phillauri, it seems the word is used as a way to call someone, much like a name, as the person's name is not known or mentioned. So he is called just Phillauri for he is from Phillaur.

The person in question, as per the trailer, seems to be Diljit Dosanjh, so mostly for practical purposes, Diljit Dosanjh's character will be called Phillauri in the film, and probably the movie is named after that character only.

Here is a translation of the India's National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana, in a very literal way, with most of the words' meanings and in some places, details of how they join, too. Since it's very literal, the poetics of the original one are lost, but the idea is to make it easy to understand here, so I have kept the focus on the meaning and explanation. Jana Gana Mana was written by 'Gurudev' Rabindranath Tagore.

jana gaNa mana adhinayaka jaya he
bhaarata bhaagya vidhaataa

We hail you, O ruler of people's hearts,
and the decider of India's destiny.

[jana gaNa means people, man is of course heart/mind, adhinayak is one who rules. bhaagya-vidhaata is who decides the fate. jaya literally means victory, but jaya he could be considered as 'hail you.']

panjaab, sindh, gujaraat, maraaThaa,
draaviR, utkala, banga,

[These are all states of undivided India. draaviR or dravid means the southern part of India, the dravidian areas. Utkal is Orissa, or rather Odisha. Banga of course is Bengal and Maratha present day Maharashtra.]

vindhya, himaachala, yamunaa, gangaa,
uchchhala-jaladhi-taranga,

Vindhya (mountain ranges), himaachal (the mountains of the present day Himachal Pradesh), Ganges and Yamuna, and the rising waves of the sea,

[uchchhala is rising, much like Hindi's uchhalti hui, jaladhi is sea, tarang is wave.]

[now this is continuation from the past two lines, that is the names of the states/regions and the mountains, rivers etc.]
-all wake with your good/gracious name,
ask for your blessings,
sing the story of your victories.

[tava is tumhaara, yours, aashish is blessing, shubh is something like holy, gaahe is gaayein - sing, gaatha is story so jaya gaatha is story of victory.]

O re rangreza is a beautifully written Qawwali from the point of view of a protagonist who turns to God when all his paths seem to be closed and so he submits himself completely to Him, requesting for help in these tough times, and to show him the path, whatever way possible. The Qawwali is performed by Sukhwinder Singh, along with Murtuza Mustafa and Qadir Mustafa, sons of Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

This is one of the Indipop songs that gained some popularity during the late '90s. The song is about a question as to where are the good places that make us more lively, and without saying expressly, the answer seems to be our villages as some things mentioned there can be found in villages, though it seems to be a bit more about the nostalgia than the actual scene.